 Good morning everybody We got the liquid life Brewing here for us To inject some life into us Should wake it up a little sore from all the work we did yesterday. I Shouldn't be but here we are living the dream. I guess Brits outside already Dogs out. We'll let them out Today we're gonna continue our project closing up underneath our veranda and I just got work work saying that I'll probably be leaving for Ohio on Monday today is Friday, so Things are a little slow getting moving out, but that's okay because I got a lot of work to do here at home You should see my sunburn. Can you see it? My neck you can see it there. Oh, there she is Look at this Just yesterday. He's all started to bloom or not bloom bud and come on Whatever you want to call it started to come to life. Look at him now You know, we got these like flower trees down here That's awesome. I love this time of year when everything comes to life just turning green Everything's growing So much promise for the future, you know, that's why spring is my favorite season Because it's already warm you can already go out the bugs aren't too bad yet They get bad real quick real soon the next couple of days is gonna be nuts mosquitoes are gonna get bad Because we have this here Not that garbage because we have this pond here, right? And this is where they breed so I've actually Taken steps to change that for this year. What I've done is we have an aeration kit on the way That's going to be keeping this water moving So there's gonna be two underground. I guess what they'd call them stones or whatever rocks One on this side one on that side. That's gonna keep the water moving So that the mosquitoes have nowhere to breed or less space in there to breed and I've also ordered a Extendable pond rake so we can rake all this algae and gunk and all the weeds off the bottom I'm gonna rake them right out. It'll take some time. So I have to do it by hand, but And we can't afford to buy all the machines for it. So it'll work. I'll just take some time So we'll be able to do that. I also bought a pump this year that can pump water from our creek over here Into here at about 3,500 gallons an hour So we should be able to raise the level of this for an evening or for a weekend when we want to Swim in it So this beaver dam is pretty much destroyed Which is good But it's sort of like a land bridge now I can get across half the creek and almost jump to that side Creek isn't very deep right now either remember how deep it was last fall after those heavy rainfalls and All of this like it came rushing over the dam here and it ate away at our bank right there All of that I'm glad that it broke through the dam on this side because then it's not gonna eat away at that Bank right there anymore. There's still pretty much straight through and down there Right over there is where we want to build our bridge eventually over the narrow We're part of the creek and then put rocks on both sides so that this doesn't happen over there And hopefully the beavers don't come and rebuild this thing. I Don't really got the time to dismantle it any further than it's already been so The creek is flowing The beavers seem to be gone. I Got other projects to worry about right now other than this. I don't got time for this so let's just Keep our fingers crossed and hope that they don't return. I think I hear my wife calling us already wondering where I am Yeah, you can tell that I've been walking around and standing all day yesterday I'm a professional sitter. So I have to walk around stand all day. I notice that the next day Diesel what you doing over there, bud? What you doing? Don't drink that water, man. I'll drink that water It's gross. I'm gonna fix it though. I'm gonna fix it next month Oh No, oh no, oh no. Oh, no. Hey, you trace them Chevy you trace them. I chase you I take you Well, show me what you got someone you got Get them. Can I play too? Can I play too? Can I play too? I'll get you. I'll get you Come here. I'll get you Okay guys, hey, hey, hey, hey, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Break it up. Break it up. Let's go up to the house Come on. Come on guys It's hard to wrestle them with only one hand Usually I can jump right in there and fight with them So we want to install this today So I'm going into town to get a few more parts and pieces. We need soft advance Four in here so that I can breathe underneath here even though it doesn't go into my attic And these are the soft advance that actually go into the attic to let the attic breathe But we want to let this breathe as well as that moisture doesn't build up in here, right? This board is not supposed to get wet Not too wet. Anyways, we don't want moisture to build up in there. So I'm gonna need a soft event a line that goes along that side another line that comes over here so the air can go in and out and Bring air through all of these sections here, right? Because once I close this off if I just put a vent like that In here all that's gonna get vented is this section here So it's got to be a line and this is 72 feet long here So I'll need a line here and a line on that side there. So we'll need 144 feet of Vent and that's just like a thin skinny vent right like it just goes Just here and then it has a little lip So the wood will go up on that side of it and also on that side there And then this whole area will be able to breathe. We don't worry about moisture building up in there and destroying All of this work that we've done. It's not cheap either Building materials are always a little a little overpriced, aren't they? It's almost like they want to discourage us from building things So I had forgotten about that that I need to bent that out I'm a trucker. I am not a carpenter. I am not a builder, but you know, I'm a little bit of a jack-of-all-trades Emphasis on the little bit I want to say thank you to who reminded me to put soft advance in there It was a comment on Instagram your Instagram name is Well your Instagram picture is a picture of a cat and it is G Stewart Tim Hmm He commented make sure you allow for ventilation through the panels to prevent moisture buildup inside the veranda roof structure They make small round vents for soft ventilation at most home supply stores I looked into the into those round ones But like I said, if I just put it a little round one or a rectangle one event between I'm gonna call them joists or trusses wrap, you know what I meant to one of those sections all that gets Ventilated is that one section? So I'm gonna have to have a strip soft event that goes along the entire length set every individual section Gets ventilation. I can go in and out or out and in or whatever it wants to do As long as air can get in there and moisture can get out. I am not a builder. I am a trucker But we are trying trying our best here. Let's see what happens Gotta go into town and get more stuff. I had to go into town anyways Because my dad has a fancy fancy table saw that he is letting me use And It would be very handy indeed So I'm gonna go in and grab that from a shop Because he's on the road right now Throw that in the truck in the back of the truck here so I can cut those panels up Well, looks like Steinbeck's getting a little bit of a makeover here on Main Street. Look at this Fancy fancy. Hope they're doing it, right? You never know it's kind of hit and miss sometimes they do a fantastic job other times they make it worse than it was before You know what I'm talking about. I'm sure they're doing a good job It would be fun just to sit in a nice cab and just Play with rocks all day We're talking about those like backhoe operators and equipment operators That'd be a fun job to have Not this guy. I wouldn't want to do that Have you guys already seen the sunburn sunburn the sunburst the sunburn on my face? I showed you it on my neck, right? Who did I get burned to a crisp yesterday? The thing is that's how I tan. I know it's not good for you, but Every year I don't try to get burnt But I always fry first thing in the air every year, but it never peels it never burns like it doesn't hurt at all And then it just turns into a nice golden tan afterwards So I know some people get burnt and then you know they get the peeling skin They get all kinds of nasty stuff that none of kind of pain and everything. It doesn't hurt at all Doesn't hurt. I Just look like a tomato. That's all Give it two days two or three days, and I'll look like a nice golden brown boy from the south A golden boy Golden man golden man sounds better golden man. I'll be a golden man a golden southern man I don't know what I'm trying to say So I washed the truck first. I wanted to clean out the box because the box is all filled with dust and dirt from that Drywall that I hauled away from our other renovation that we're in the middle of right now so I clean that out so I can put dad's tools into a nice clean truck bed and Go pick that up. I got to go pick up those vents. Hopefully they have them in stock. I'm sure they do We'll try out e.g. Penner, I guess since we're in town here if they don't have it There's McMunn and Yates and they don't have it. There's Rona These are all the same thing as Home Depot for you Americans Dad's shop Where every tool known to man resides Somewhere this is I think just all the storage stuff right now There we go. There's all those tools Any tool for any job you can imagine you can imagine it dad's got the tools for it. He's your man Now I need a table saw If I were a table saw in dad's shop, where would I be? Table saw table saw I will find it without asking his help. I will find it. I can do this Do this look at this big air compressor. Yikes. He's got another one over here somewhere a stand-up one Thought he did. What do you do with it? Oh, maybe sold it. Huh, who knows? Who knows? Table saw do you guys see a table saw? Maybe it's on the table. Maybe if I listen it'll call out to me Dad's pickup is in here right now because this is where he usually parks his semi But when he's on a trip he parks his pickup in here This shop isn't too far from their house. It's just he parks his truck in here Especially in wintertime wants to keep it warm in here obviously and he takes his pickup home It's gotta be in here somewhere I don't think he'd have it at the house Is that it? I thought it was blue Yeah, that's the table saw. Yeah, I thought it was blue. There we go. I don't use this thing Let's see See he's got angles and This this maybe I don't figure out how to use this thing What kind of 32 year old am I? I don't know how to use a table saw Oh, man, I think that this That you move this then you move that raise blade this way. Oh, yeah, there comes There comes just very slowly you see Ah, there we go. It's like you want it Flush and underneath there for transporting so you don't cut yourself or anything Told you I knew what I was doing. You doubted me I'm 32 years old. I know how to Cut things and stuff I hope that by the time I'm my dad's age. I'm just as handy if not at least half as handy as he is He always likes that saying well your wife don't find you handsome. You should at least find you handy I guess I just uh gotta rely on being handsome Oh, it's good the whole it's the whole table. Oh, he's got it bolted on to like a little table. Okay I'm just joking. I know what I'm doing guys. I'm handy. I'm handsome and handy There you go. See My wife's the lucky woman. She got the whole package both of them handsome and handy That's what I say anyways I guess I gotta get this in the back of my pickup now Well diesel there we go. We got her at home We got our uh Vents over here as well soft advance Bought everything they had I'm gonna be a little short. So we're gonna have to get a little creative two inch pvc soft advance to let this breathe But I'm going to be 24 feet short And nowhere else in town had any more so We're gonna be a little creative. We're gonna be able to get everything vented Just 24 feet of it won't be as vented as the rest You want to see something gross heads up gross Chevy found this in our bush I think it's a cow jaw Is I hope it is it's either that or a very very large human No, it's a cow the cow or a horse or something. Okay. Let's get to work guys. We've got lots of work to do I'm home till monday now I'll probably head out sunday night But we have the rest of today tomorrow And the next day, but we've got to get this done. Hopefully we can get most of it done today And the finished product Finished for now. Anyways, you still got to put another layer of paint on it So we decided that uh, well, I haven't finished this yet either I have to install venting On there yet, but They're not we've got her all done for long afternoons, but looks a lot better